MENLO PARK, Calif.,
Feb. 22, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- The
ONOS Collaboration along with members has launched the Mobile-CORD
(M-CORD) project. Built on top of the ONOS open source project and
CORD (Central Office Rearchitected as a Datacenter), M-CORD
combines data center economies and the cloud agility of CORD
infrastructure with the benefits of mobile edge computing and
disaggregation and virtualization of mobile infrastructure
components.
With the proliferation of a new wave of connected users and
devices, service providers are challenged to scale service delivery
in an agile and efficient manner with the existing mobile network
architecture. The aggregation of data traffic through the
mobile core can tax the backhaul, backbone transport, and EPC
system. And changing traffic patterns put pressure on capital
and operational spending.
M-CORD takes a significant step toward bringing economies of
scale and cloud agility to the central office, by integrating SDN,
NFV, and cloud principles with the best of mobile
architecture. M-CORD enables an open and flexible reference
architecture through open source software platforms, merchant
silicon, and commodity whiteboxes with standard leaf-spine fabric
right at the edge of the mobile network. M-CORD integrates
disaggregated/virtualized Radio Access Network (RAN),
disaggregated/virtualized Evolved Packet Core (EPC), and mobile
edge services with CORD to achieve its stated goals. Thus M-CORD
promises to further transform the mobile network from a transport
network into a service delivery platform, allowing operators to
achieve considerable opportunities for edge services with
cloud-based economies and cost-savings. With M-CORD's
potential, operators and their collaborators may tap deeper into
services such as digital gaming, video streaming, IOT,
safety, big data analytics, mobile health, education, smart cities,
vehicular communications, and much more with improved QoE and
agility.
"We're excited about the progress that our collaboration and
community have made on M-CORD in such a short amount of time – a
testament to the importance of this initiative to vendors, service
providers and enterprises alike," said Guru Parulkar, Executive
Director, ON.Lab and ONOS Board Chairman. "The delivery of M-CORD
not only generates new opportunities for competitive mass market
solutions such as IoT, Big Data, mobile healthcare, education and
more, but also enables the supply chain efficiencies needed for the
industry to provide cutting-edge innovation to consumers at
affordable prices. We welcome new members to join us."
Executive Statements
The M-CORD project has garnered support from leading service
providers, AT&T, SK Telecom, and Verizon in collaboration with
solution providers Radisys, Cavium, NEC/NetCracker, Cobham Wireless
and AirHop Communications.
"The open source community is driving innovation to bring
economies of scale and the agility of the cloud to the mobile edge
to meet the real-time demands of our subscribers. The M-CORD
project is a great initiative undertaken by this community. It
brings together critical industry players from the vendor community
with service providers, and we look forward to using the M-CORD
platform as we build out our SDN and NFV capabilities in the
context of a 5G network."
-Andre Fuetsch, senior
vice president, Architecture and Design, AT&T
"The growing momentum for the M-CORD initiative and the ONOS
project among service providers and the vendor community is
exciting. Through the work of this open community, M-CORD promises
to deliver the key components needed for 5G deployment in the near
future, enabling economies of scale in the mobile network and the
accelerated delivery of new services."
-Alex Jinsung Choi, CTO and
executive vice president, Corporate R&D Center, SK
Telecom
"We see the possibilities of the M-CORD project as one of the
enablers of 5G, IoT and future mobile services. Our collaboration
with other service providers and leading solution providers in this
effort will contribute toward the industry's ability to deploy
scalable, highly-available SDN architectures when and where
needed."
-Brian Higgins, vice
president, Network Planning, Verizon
Experience M-CORD PoC at the Open Networking Summit (ONS)
2016
The M-CORD vendor community will be converging on the Open
Networking Summit, March 14-16 in
Santa Clara, California to
showcase the first M-CORD proof-of-concept (PoC) demonstration. The
PoC highlights how mobile service providers can realize the
benefits of CORD – economies of scale and cloud agility allowing
the rapid creation of new and innovative services – along with the
benefits of mobile edge computing, including ultra-low latency. The
disaggregation of Evolved Packet Core (EPC) and eNodeB as well as
RAN virtualization completes the picture. This PoC is the first
step in creating a reference proof-of-design platform that the
industry can use as the basis for competitive differentiation with
additional applications.
About the ONOS Project
ONOS is the open source SDN
networking operating system for Service Provider networks
architected for high performance, scale and availability. ONOS'
ecosystem comprises ON.Lab and organizations that are funding and
contributing to the ONOS initiative as well as non-funding
collaborators that contribute code and other resources.
Collaborators that are funding and contributing to ONOS include
AT&T, NTT Communications, SK Telecom, China Unicom,
Alcatel-Lucent, Ciena, Cisco, Ericsson, Fujitsu, Huawei, Intel, NEC
and Verizon. Non-funding members who are collaborating and
contributing to ONOS include ONF, Infoblox, SRI, Internet2,
Happiest Minds, KISTI, KAIST, Kreonet, NAIM, CNIT, Black Duck,
Create-Net, Criterion Networks, ETRI, ADARA Networks, ClearPath
Networks, ECI, BUPT FNL, Radisys Corporation, Cavium and the
broader ONOS community. Learn how you can get involved with ONOS at
onosproject.org.
ONOS is a Collaborative Project at The Linux Foundation. Linux
Foundation Collaborative Projects are independently funded software
projects that harness the power of collaborative development to
fuel innovation across industries and
ecosystems. www.linuxfoundation.org.
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